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E3 2010: New Time Crisis Compatible With Move, Guncon 3

There are a lot of games coming for the PlayStation Move, but even if you watched Sony's press conference, you might have missed a significant one...

They didn't talk about it at the time, but a shot of what seemed to be a new Time Crisis appeared during a Move-compatible montage of titles. I remember sort of half paying attention as I was writing another story, but I'm pretty sure I caught it out of the corner of my eye... Things got hectic after that and I wasn't reminded again until a reader sent us the information that Namco Bandai had indeed announced Time Crisis: Razing Storm. It will come exclusively to the PlayStation 3 this fall and in addition to working with Move, it will also be - shock of shocks - compatible with Namco's Guncon 3 light gun accessory. The storyline is hardly important but for the sake of details: a special task force has been dispatched to South America to foil a plot to topple the US. The mastermind of said plot is your target and of course, a whole lot of baddies stand between you and him.

There will be an Arcade mode (just waves and waves of enemies) but we'll also get the benefit of a free-roaming Story mode, which lets you hunt down the villain through a bunch of diverse, destructible environments, all the while using that familiar cover and auto-look mechanic. Lastly, Namco will introduce an online multiplayer component, where up to 8 players can engage in cooperative and competitive battles, and that sounds like a big draw. ...just don't cringe when you see the screens; this is Time Crisis, not God of War.

Looks like they're using Move to bring the Arcade home, I loved Time Crisis in the Arcade, and games like 'The Fight: Lights out' and 'Sorcery' look to me like Sony's taking the right steps to make sure their Motion Sensing Technology isn't just seen as 'for casual gamers'.

This game really isn't a true Time Crisis title, but rather a conversion of Razing Storm itself:

http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/am/vg/razingstorm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razing_Storm

If anything its obvious that Namco just slapped the name "Time Crisis" on the game to make people think its a Time Crisis game but its not. In fact if anybody actually played Razing Storm in the arcades its nothing like Time Crisis or even has nothing to do frachise

The old guncon games... good times... good times. I hope the move adds to the action rather than detracts. I'm really looking forward to seeing this kind of stuff in action because PGA made me a little nervous.